The Balanced Trader

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@UKLabour But they don't keep us safe because @UKLabour don't let them. Meanwhile its supporters are on the street calling for an end to the war against regime that murdered thousands in their hospital beds! You are a disgrace @Keir_Starmer!

Our Armed Forces keep us safe at home and abroad. Yet Kemi Badenoch says our brave RAF pilots are just "hanging around". She must apologise.

SPX Gex/State Gamma for today

Watch as thus British show host unleashes 2 minutes straight on her own government! It's beautiful, elect her as PM... STAT!!! This is way Americans are FED up with Demoncrats!

Where did I get out guys, and what do I say about trading balance in these environments?

Been talking a lot about LBF / LAF lately, look below fails, look above fails against key levels. This setup is another clean example. You wait for the behaviour shift at the extreme, define your risk, execute, and let the market do the rest. These are simple, repeatable trades you can take while doing other things. Learn to spot the change at the edges and you can survive this environment. Momentum only comes when use- very stable an balance given what's going on. #tradelikeapro #marketprofile #ES_F

@JimScalpert I like the approach of flipping things and making them suit the way your brain can interpret them quicker. Nothing wrong with that. Very smart

I love Sierra, but I don't think I could ever quit TOS. I run my Sierra execution chart on one screen for order flow, & this TOS Set up on another. Sometimes everything just sync's up like it did today with ES reversing off a pivot, NQ looking below fail of pivot where ONL reversed to the tick, and VIX reversing (I invert for my smooth brain) all getting reversal indicators & RSI reversals right at the IB Close. It's a beautiful thing when the planets align. Doesn't happen every day... #NQ_F

#Iran The UK knew escalation was coming, it knew Trump was likely to strike, and it still didn’t prepare its own sovereign bases. A cheap, slow drone getting anywhere near RAF Akrotiri is a complete failure of readiness. That’s on the government, not on circumstances. #UKGovernment #NationalSecurity And this isn’t new. It’s a pattern. France moves first, Greece moves first, the UAE evacuates first — and the UK just waits, hesitates, and only reacts once others have already taken decisive action. That’s not leadership, that’s following because you’re too scared to lead. #LeadershipCrisis #BritainFailing The UK has sovereign territory in Cyprus. It has obligations. It has responsibilities. Yet it behaves like a passenger, not a state that takes its own security seriously. When things kick off, Britain should be the first to secure its bases and protect its people. Instead, it reacts late, looks unprepared, and gives the impression it can’t handle what’s coming next. #RAF #Akrotiri #Cyprus This is on the British government. This is on Starmer’s leadership. And right now, it’s failing — badly. #KeirStarmer #ForeignPolicy #Defence #Mediterranean #StrategicFailure

I’m curious what will happen when Ai agents discover the speed and scalability of #Kaspa combined WITH proof of work benefits and security. I’ve got a massive leg in buy order ahead of the 2 cent zone… risk reward mandates it.

I’m a function of every trading environment I’ve ever worked in STA, STCM, MAREX, fund life, Axia, CT, home. No single style survives only evolves and what remains is the accumulation of lessons paid for, edges absorbed, knowledge earned.

I asked @nanaimotrader if he used a Bloomberg to trade news. He said, “Why? RTY gives me 2–3 one‑percent moves off the open every week.” Done by the IB. Even after 20 years, still learning. Still here after 25. #RTY_F #ES_F $SPY

@ZigsOnTheBid @FuturesTrader71 I learned a lot working with @FuturesTrader71. One of the biggest lessons was using numbers to settle expectations, grounding existing news and theme narratives in market behaviour and stats. @NanaimoTrader and Tendex were the real deal in relaying what is possible.

I remember when I first watched this video it sparked a lot of ideas for coming up with stats for a market, tip of the iceberg type thing. Even though I don't manually do it in Excel anymore, I still found this helpful at the time. @FuturesTrader71 youtu.be/iAt4YtiY-WA

@ZigsOnTheBid Don't trust anyone who exists just to flatter your ego. Today’s AI is limited, one trick pony sure aime to appease, but it won’t stay that way. Although without genuine domain expertise guiding it, the results will never match the intent. It can copy, it can't create -yet!

@EffMktHype When I was spreading, this kind of calculation was everything. You prayed for multi‑step moves and mean reversion, anything but a straight line. These days? I just want to hit the exit price immediately. Nice tool #spreader

i created a quick study on bbg to calculate the percentage ratio of an asset's price change relative to the moving sum of its ATR - on a 20-day lookback (for px change and ATR calc). I think of this as the 'efficiency of movement' by measuring how many steps taken for every mile. ES is currently running at its most inefficient level in years. TY looks like it's zipping and gold is hugely inefficient due to the intraday vol. Crude and dollar reasonably in historical range.

#STARMERS lack of conviction and coherence. Allowing UK bases to be used against Iran while sidestepping the IRGC issue sends a confusing message at a time when clarity matters most. Well done #trump

@NiohBerg Allunak in Westbourne Grove London. photos.app.goo.gl/LcaQ1Zuk2QBDVy…

Everyone please go eat at a Persian restaurant this weekend. You will have the time of your life. 🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷

@sstfrederik @SierraChart Perfect

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I am a woman from Iran. Let me tell you honestly how women like me see politicians like you in America, women who speak about freedom from the safety of Congress while sympathizing with our killers under Islamic regimes. You stand next to the American flag, speaking about freedom. Now you launch campaigns saying, “No War With Iran.” Now I want to introduce you to a brave Iranian woman who understood America better than you ever will. Her name is Sara Saeidi. Born and raised in Iran. 39 years old. A mother of two daughters, 19 and 6. She was shot in the head for the “crime” of peacefully protesting while wearing a sweatshirt that said MANHATTAN, with the American flag beneath it. While you stood in Congress under that flag, she carried its name on her chest, not as symbolism for a photo opportunity but as a dream. Three days after she was killed, her body was returned to her family only after threats and money were taken from them. They were banned from holding a proper funeral. Authorities falsified the circumstances of her death. That is the regime you refuse to confront clearly. She wanted the freedom Manhattan represents, the freedom to live without fear, without morality police, without a bullet in her head. The same freedom protected by the Constitution you swore to uphold. You speak of “No War With Iran,” but you refuse to condemn the war being waged against us, the Iranian people, by the Islamic Republic. More than 30,000 unarmed civilians have been killed. Women blinded. Teenagers hanged. Mothers executed. When American lawmakers like you reduce this reality to a partisan talking point, you do the regime’s work for it. Dictatorships thrive when moral clarity disappears and when lawmakers choose ambiguity instead of standing firmly with victims. You call yourself anti war. But where is your condemnation of the regime’s massacre? Where is your outrage at its war against its own people? You are anti-Iranian women.💔 Peace without justice is surrender. Your hatred of President Trump appears stronger than your love for America, stronger than your love for Manhattan, for freedom, for women’s rights. That is why you sound sympathetic to the Islamic Republic while remaining silent about women like Sara, like me, and like millions of Iranians who are victims of this barbaric regime. You celebrating hijab day in Manhattan in beautiful New York and watching women get killed in Iran for not wearing hijab. I dare you to share the picture of Sara, and say no to the war being wage by Islamist terrorist on us, Iranians.

@Markos_mom Success is just after the next sub:)

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How exhausting it must be to be a liberal today. For decades they were defined by standing up to authoritarianism and championing the oppressed. But now, in the face of one of the greatest liberations in modern history, they can’t allow themselves to celebrate because they spent the last decade consuming buffets of bullshit about the guy who just made it happen. They know it’s a good thing, and they know we know they know; it must be pure agony. I would love nothing more than for them to join us in being happy today, if only just this once. I’d like to shit diamonds too, but I know that ain’t gonna happen either.